This is a hints, tips, and strategy guide for the video game "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", for the Nintendo GameCube {NGC}, PlayStation 2 {PS2}, Xbox versions of the game, from the year 2003. This guide, and the corresponding game are based on the film of the same name. There are color screenshots, and diagram style maps of each area. There are also clip and paste style images of the in-game characters. Between the back cover, and the last page there is a sealed 16 page section. This book originally cost $14.99 in the USA, and $21.95 in Canada, and £12.99 in the UK.

This is Prima Publishing's fourth 'Lord of the Rings' book, the first being for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System {SNES}, game from 1994. Books in this series from Prima Publishing.

• The Lord of the Rings: Game Secrets. ISBN: 1559586753. {1995}
  
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. ISBN: 0761540873 {2002}
  
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. ISBN: 0761541942 {2002}
  
• The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. ISBN: 0761543945 {2003}
  
• The Lord of The Rings: The Third Age. ISBN: 0761547479 {2004}
  
• The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth. ISBN: 076154545X {2004}
  
• The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II. ISBN: 0761553126 {2006}
  
• The Lord of the Rings: Online: Shadows of Angmar. ISBN: 0761553304 {2007}
  
• The Lord of the Rings: Online: Shadows of Angmar: World Companion. ISBN: 0761557156 {2007}
  
• The Lord of the Rings: Conquest. ISBN: 0761560386 {2009}